Quite often, in web site development we need to capture the thumbnail image of particular website. Following is the way to do it.
Step 1. Make a new class which will hold all neccessary things to capture the thumbnail
public class WebsiteThumbnailImageGenerator
{
public static Bitmap GetWebSiteThumbnail(string Url, int BrowserWidth, int BrowserHeight, int ThumbnailWidth, int ThumbnailHeight)
{
WebsiteThumbnailImage thumbnailGenerator = new WebsiteThumbnailImage(Url, BrowserWidth, BrowserHeight, ThumbnailWidth, ThumbnailHeight);
return thumbnailGenerator.GenerateWebSiteThumbnailImage();
}
private class WebsiteThumbnailImage
{
public WebsiteThumbnailImage(string Url, int BrowserWidth, int BrowserHeight, int ThumbnailWidth, int ThumbnailHeight)
{
this.m_Url = Url;
this.m_BrowserWidth = BrowserWidth;
this.m_BrowserHeight = BrowserHeight;
this.m_ThumbnailHeight = ThumbnailHeight;
this.m_ThumbnailWidth = ThumbnailWidth;
}
private string m_Url = null;
public string Url
{
get
{
return m_Url;
}
set
{
m_Url = value;
}
}
private Bitmap m_Bitmap = null;
public Bitmap ThumbnailImage
{
get
{
return m_Bitmap;
}
}
private int m_ThumbnailWidth;
public int ThumbnailWidth
{
get
{
return m_ThumbnailWidth;
}
set
{
m_ThumbnailWidth = value;
}
}
private int m_ThumbnailHeight;
public int ThumbnailHeight
{
get
{
return m_ThumbnailHeight;
}
set
{
m_ThumbnailHeight = value;
}
}
private int m_BrowserWidth;
public int BrowserWidth
{
get
{
return m_BrowserWidth;
}
set
{
m_BrowserWidth = value;
}
}
private int m_BrowserHeight;
public int BrowserHeight
{
get
{
return m_BrowserHeight;
}
set
{
m_BrowserHeight = value;
}
}
public Bitmap GenerateWebSiteThumbnailImage()
{
Thread m_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(_GenerateWebSiteThumbnailImage));
m_thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
m_thread.Start();
m_thread.Join();
return m_Bitmap;
}
private void _GenerateWebSiteThumbnailImage()
{
WebBrowser m_WebBrowser = new WebBrowser();
m_WebBrowser.ScrollBarsEnabled = false;
m_WebBrowser.Navigate(m_Url);
m_WebBrowser.DocumentCompleted += new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(WebBrowser_DocumentCompleted);
while (m_WebBrowser.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
Application.DoEvents();
m_WebBrowser.Dispose();
}
private void WebBrowser_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
WebBrowser m_WebBrowser = (WebBrowser)sender;
m_WebBrowser.ClientSize = new Size(this.m_BrowserWidth, this.m_BrowserHeight);
m_WebBrowser.ScrollBarsEnabled = false;
m_Bitmap = new Bitmap(m_WebBrowser.Bounds.Width, m_WebBrowser.Bounds.Height);
m_WebBrowser.BringToFront();
m_WebBrowser.DrawToBitmap(m_Bitmap, m_WebBrowser.Bounds);
m_Bitmap = (Bitmap)m_Bitmap.GetThumbnailImage(m_ThumbnailWidth, m_ThumbnailHeight, null, IntPtr.Zero);
}
}
}
Step 2: Call the GetWebSiteThumbnail() function of class like this
string address = www.google.com;
int width = 200;
int height = 140;
int capWidth = 800;
int capHeight = 600;
Bitmap thumbnail = WebsiteThumbnailImageGenerator.GetWebSiteThumbnail(address, capWidth, capHeight, width, height);
Step 3 : Save the image to particular place of your website.
thumbnail.Save(Server.MapPath(“FolderName\\”) + “MyImageName”,ImageFormat.Jpeg);
Now you can find a jpeg image on your desired location.
Optional enhancement:
You can also directly give it on your aspx page like
On Step 3: thumbnail.Save (Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
<asp:Image ID=”Image1″ ImageUrl=”snapshot.aspx?site=www.google.com&width=100&height=80&capWidth=800&capHeight=600″ runat=”server” />
and on this image place you will have image.
